Iowa Reading Association Poetry Contest 2014 Pelladium
5th Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer Festival @
The Village Hall
(Patrick's Quay, Cork – Map Beneath) 
Ó Bhéal is delighted to denote its 5th Winter Warmer festival weekend, which features 23+ poets, films from the Ó Bhéal International verse-film competition, poesy interpreted through dance, accompanied by music and a closed-mic set for x local poets.
(€v suggested donation)
The Long Valley Bar, The Hamlet Hall, The Evening Echo (our media partners), The Arts Council,
Foras na Gaeilge, Farmgate Market Café, Dunnes Stores, Forum Publications, Colmcille,
Arc Publications, Isaacs Hotel, Cork City Council, Poetry Republic of ireland, UCC English language Dept,
The Natural Foods Bakery, The Quay Co-op and Paradiso.
Edward O'Dwyer | Niamh Prior | Richard Lambert | Frank Golden
Edward O'Dwyer is from Limerick and holds the laurels of reading for O Bhéal's commencement ever guest spot, back in 2007, when he was one of three poets featured in the chapbook Revival Trio (Revival Press). His poems are published in journals and anthologies throughout the earth, including The Forward Book of Poetry. He has published two collections to appointment, both from Salmon Poetry – The Pelting on Cruise's Street (2014) and Bad News, Good News, Bad News (2017). He was shortlisted in 2010 for a Hennessy Award and read the aforementioned twelvemonth for Poetry Ireland'south Introductions series. His work has been nominated for Best of the Web, Forward and Pushcart Prizes. He besides edited two poetry anthologies for Limerick'south community printing, Revival Press – Sextet (2010) and Sextet 2 (2016). He is currently working on a tertiary poetry collection, and too a drove of 'night one-act' micro fictions with the theme of infidelity.
Niamh Prior 's work has appeared in journals including The Penny Dreadful, Southword and The Stinging Fly. Her poetry has been shortlisted or highly commended in competitions including The Patrick Kavanagh Award, Cúirt New Writing Prize and The Dermot Healy Award. She was the overall winner of the 2016 iYeats International Poetry Contest. She is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at UCC, funded by a scholarship from the Irish gaelic Research Council.
Richard Lambert 'south 2d collection of verse,The Nameless Places, was published past Arc in 2017. He previously had a pamphlet published by The Rialto, and his first drove came out in 2012. His poems take appeared in theTimes Literary Supplement, Poetry Republic of ireland Review, The Rialto, The Xanthous Bill, andThe Forward Album 2014. He besides writes fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Sunday Times Brusque Story Award. He has a PhD in medieval history almost descriptions of mural in medieval texts, and works for the NHS. He lives in Norwich, UK.
Frank Golden is a Clare-based poet, novelist, and screenwriter. He has published v books of poems, the almost recent of which was gotta get a message to you (Salmon Poetry, 2017) "This is a poet to get excited virtually. Risk taking … rhapsodic … elevated." – Afric McGlinchy (Southword). His novel, The Two Women of Aganatz (Wolfhound Press), was described by Carol Coulter in The Irish Times as "uncomfortable, simply compellingly and poetically described past a powerful imagination". 2015 saw his return to the novel with The Night Game (Salmon Publications) "A challenging, transgressive, and gripping read." – Declan Burke (The Irish Examiner). He has received bursaries and awards from the Irish gaelic Picture Board, Clare County Council, and the Arts Council of Republic of ireland. Frank Aureate is Head of Creative Writing at the Burren College of Art.
Keith Payne | Jennifer Matthews | Biddy Jenkinson
Keith Payne was the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Honor winner 2015-2016. His collection Broken Hill (Lapwing Publications, Belfast, 2015), was followed past Six Galician Poets (Arc Publications, 2016). Forthcoming from Francis Boutle Publishers is Diary of Crosses Greenish, from the Galician of Martín Veiga. Keith is director of the La Malinche Readings between Ireland and Galicia and the PoemaRia International Poetry Festival, Vigo. A poet and translator, he shares his time betwixt Dublin and Vigo with the musician Su Garrido Pombo.
Jennifer Matthews writes poetry and is the founding editor of theLong Story, Curt Journal. Her verse has been published inThe Stinging Wing, Mslexia, andThe Penny Dreadful among others, and anthologised in Dedalus's contempo anthology,The Deep Middle'southward Core (2017). She was selected for the Poetry Republic of ireland Introductions serial in 2015, and her manuscript Home, Body was highly commended in the Patrick Kavanagh competition in 2016. Rootless, her poetry chapbook, is available to read free online at smithereenspress.com
Biddy Jenkinson is interested in the maintenance of bumble bee habitats in Wicklow. Her pen proper noun is a gesture of obeisance towards An Bhé /The Muse. She writes poetry if she tin and if she tin can't, turns to detective fiction, short stories and if that won't work, plays (desperately), tin whistle or she paints or gardens or cooks – believing that all these activities are related. She has published numerous collections of poesy, 2 collections of brusk stories and two plays. A new collection Sceilg na Scál , in praise of Sceilg, will be published soon past Coiscéim.
Is file, drámadóir agus scríbhneoir gearrscéal é Biddy Jenkinson . Coiscéim a d'fhoilsigh a saothar. An leabhar is deireanaí dá cuid Táinrith, ath-insint ar Tháin Bhó Cuailnge. D'éirigh go maith le scéalta bleachtaireachta dá cuid. An tAthair Pádraig Ó Duinnín, foclóirí, a bhíonn ag bleachtaireacht. Beidh cnuasach nua filiochta dá cuid Trí Bhanúlacht na Sceilge á fhoilsiú ag Coiscéim go luath. Beidh leabhar filíochta nua léi, Sceilg na Scál á láinseáil ag Féile na Brídeoige in Uíbh Ráthach i mi Feabhra.
Brendan Cleary & Ken Marshall
Órfhlaith Foyle | Felispeaks | Stephen James Smith
Originally from Co Antrim, Brendan Cleary lives & writes in Brighton. He has published eight collections and sixteen pamphlets, from presses such every bit Bloodaxe, Wrecking Ball & Tall-Lighthouse. His latest is Face (Pighog Printing 2013). He published The Echo Room journal for many years, and via Repeat Room Press (since 1986), produced poesy pamphlets including works past Matthew Caley, George Charlton and Martin Myers.
Ken Marshall has been an integral part of the Irish music scene for the last decade. In recent years he has featured aslope legendary jazz musicians Bobby Watson and Jon Faddis in concert. Orchestrally, he has performed with the Cork School of Music Symphony Orchestra, Cork Youth Orchestra, UCC Orchestra, Irish Operatic & Repertoire Society and more. As a wind band instrumentalist he has played with the Irish Youth wind Ensemble, Trinity Higher of Music Contemporary Current of air Orchestra, Cork School of Music Concert Band & Current of air Ensemble and numerous other local and national ensembles. He has been a member of the critically acclaimed UK Saxophone Quartet 'Intoto' and was a member of the innovative ensemble 'Trinity Saxes' while based in London.
He has been a fixture on the Cork jazz scene for many years leading his ain quartet and jazz-fusion ring and was an integral member of the hugely successful Cork School of Music Jazz Big Band where he was regularly featured as soloist. Ken has been involved in countless productions at the Cork Opera Business firm and Everyman Palace Theatre every bit a session player and has made numerous TV and radio appearances. Ken's performances include tours of the Eye East under the auspices of the British Council, concerts and workshops in conjunction with an EFL consultant, all-encompassing concert performances throughout Republic of ireland, UK, Europe and USA, The Royal Tournament at Earls Court, London, Jazz et Juan, Jazz Festival in Juan le Pains on French Riviera and the Wigan Jazz Festival.
Órfhlaith Foyle was born in Africa to Irish parents and now lives in Galway. Her get-go novel Belios was published by The Lilliput Press. Her kickoff total poetry collection Red Riding Hood's Dilemma (Arlen Business firm) was brusk-listed for the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award in 2011. Arlen Firm also published Foyle's debut short fiction, Somewhere in Minnesota, in 2011 and its title story kickoff appeared in Faber and Faber'south New Irish gaelic Short Stories (2011), edited by Joseph O'Connor. Foyle's second brusk fiction collection Clemency Browne Dreams of Gin (Arlen House 2014) was chosen equally one of the Irish Times books of the twelvemonth. Her work has been published in The Dublin Review, The Wales Arts Review, The Manchester Review, and The Stinging Fly.
FeliSpeaks is a immature Afro-Irish spoken word creative person. She was raised in Longford and is now a resident of Maynooth town. Her poetry explores many interesting ideas in relations to love, her childhood experiences and also her various moments of enlightenment as a young developed. Emerging from the boisterous college poetry scene, she has grown and graced many stages from the National Concert Hall, to the Olympia Theatre, Theatre Phase in Electric Picnic and even Vicar Street, to name a few. FeliSpeaks is a promising, budding creative person who has her listen assail leaving her eye with the crowd equally she takes them on a journey of words.
Stephen has performed at high profile events and festivals such as the Electrical Picnic, Other Voices, the National Concert Hall, the Abbey Theatre (Noble Phone call) and Vicar Street (alongside Oscar winner Glen Hansard and Colm Mac Ionmaire); and further afield at the London Palladium, the Oscar Wilde Awards in LA, Glastonbury, George Town Literary Festival (ML) and other events in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Iowa, Montreal, Ottawa, Bangkok, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Utrecht, Ljubljana and Warsaw. In 2012 he was invited to perform for the Irish Olympic team in London. Stephen has been conducting poetry workshops in secondary schools around Ireland for a number of years and is a regular volunteer with Fighting Words. His poetry is included on the syllabus at Western Connecticut State University and his work has been translated into Irish, Spanish, Slovenian, Shine, Dutch and Italian. Stephen'south debut collection, Fear Not, is due from Arlen House in Autumn 2017.
Stephen James Smith is a Dublin poet and playwright fundamental to the rise of the vibrant spoken word scene in Ireland today. To date, his poetry videos take amassed over 1 million views online. In 2017 he was commissioned by St. Patrick's Festival to write a new poem as a "celebratory narrative" of Republic of ireland. The resultant slice My Republic of ireland is accompanied by a short picture past Director Myles O'Reilly, arranged and mixed by Conor O'Brien (Villagers), with music by Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Loah, Saint Sister, Eithne Ní Chatháin (aka Inni-Thousand) and Ye Vagabonds. It has been viewed over 300,000 times online and was screened at London Pic Festival in Trafalgar Square on March 17th. The poem was in many ways a follow on from Smith'south previous poetry video Dublin You Are, which itself clocked up in backlog of 250k views.
Poetry Films | Poetry Dance with Inma Pavon | Closed Mic
A twoscore-minute selection of Poetry Films , including a number of shortlisted films and the winner of the 2017 Ó Bhéal Poetry-Motion picture Competition . The 2017 Ó Bhéal judges, poet Lani O'Hanlon and filmmaker Shaun O'Connor, chose a shortlist of 30 films from 186 International entries (from 29 countries), to finally produce i overall winner who receives the Indie Cork festival award for best poetry flick.
Photograph by Ankie Janssen
a solo Trip the light fantastic piece set to the poetry
of Leonides Pavon
Postcards from Abode is a 15 minutes solo dance performance created by Inma Pavon for the Ó Bhéal Wintertime Warmer Poetry Festival. This trip the light fantastic toe is based on a series of poems written by Inma's female parent, Leonides, over the concluding twenty years. Interpreting her mother's poems, Inma explains:
'this brings upwards an opportunity for me to reconnect with my place of origin through an expressive body immersed in its near purest and poetic dance.'
Inma Pavon is a Spanish Choreographer/Dancer/Instructor based in Cork. She has recently collaborated with renowned Irish gaelic Functioning Artist Amanda Coogan in one of her latest major art exhibitions calledI'll sing you a vocal from around the town, at the RHA in Dublin. Inma was granted an Arts Participation Award by The Arts Quango of Ireland to facilitate her work with Headway (Support for Brain Caused Injury) . She was invited choreographer/teacher at the CSN Dance Course, at Cork Youth Ballet Co., at Cork Schoolhouse of Dance, at Lucy French School of Dance and at the Certificate for Contemporary Living Class (UCC). Her collaborative work expands from Amanda Coogan, Gracie May Marshall, Mick O'Shea, Carolyne Collier, Eimear Reidy, Dorone Paris, Sara Wentworth, Helle Helsner, Andrea Bonino, Celina Muldoon, Patricia Klich, Paula Larkin and Danny Mc Carthy among many other artists. Inma is currently completing a PaR (Practise equally Research) PhD titled Performing Zen in the Drama and Theatre Studies in UCC.
A Closed Mic will showcase ten poets who announced regularly at the Ó Bhéal open-mic sessions (after the invitee readings) on Monday nights in the Long Valley.
George Harding | Caitriona Ni Chleirchin | James O' Sullivan
George Harding is a poet from Cork. He has been published in numerous journals, in Ireland and internationally, including The Moth and Southword. His first drove My Stolen City was published in 2011 past Revival Press who also published his second, Last Motorcoach to Pewterhole Cross (2015). He is now working on his tertiary collection which will draw on themes that have proven characteristic of his writing to date, namely the environs, environmental, ornithology, politics, and the human feel.
Caitríona Ní Chléirchín is an Irish-language poet, critic and lecturer originally from Gortmoney, Emyvale in Co. Monaghan. Her début collection Crithloinnir won the Oireachtas Prize for New Writers in 2010 and her 2d collection An Bhrídeach Sí published in 2014 won the Michael Hartnett Prize 2015. She has published poetry in Comhar, Irish Pages, Cyphers, The Stinging Fly, Feasta, Blaiseadh Pinn, The Shop, An t-Ultach and An Guth. She also writes reviews, academic and journalistic articles and over 20 reviews in The Irish Times, Comhar, and Taighde agus Teagasc and others.
She is also an Irish-language and literature lecturer at St. Patrick'due south College DCU. Her doctorate was a pyschoanalytical body-centred reading of the Irish-language contemporary poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Biddy Jenkinson. Mícheál Ó Ruairc has described her as the new dear lyricist writing Irish gaelic poetry today in Comhar (Dec, 2010). Liam Carson has compared her work to that of the Russian Poet Marina Tsvetaeva, in his review of her first collection in Poetry Ireland Review (104, 2011).
Book Launch: James O'Sullivan has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including The Store, Southword, Cyphers, Crannóg, and Revival. James includes third-place in the Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Prize 2016 among his honours. He has twice been shortlisted for the Fish Poetry Prize, equally well equally the Fish Short Story Prize 2014/xv. James has been a invitee reader at numerous venues and events, both national and international, including Ó Bhéal, the Cork Bound Poetry Festival, and the CFHSS Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. James, who is Lecturer in Digital Arts & Humanities at University Higher Cork, is the Founding Editor of New Binary Press. For more about James' work, delight visit www.josullivan.org
Mary Noonan | Daniel Salgado | Rody Gorman
Mary Noonan 's commencement collection, The Fado House (Dedalus, 2012), was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Center Prize and the Strong/Shine Award, having won the Listowel Poesy Collection Prize (2010). Her poems have been published in many magazines and journals, including Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, PN Review, The Well Review, The Dark Horse, The Stinging Fly, Poetry London and The Spectator.
Noonan was awarded an Arts Council of Ireland Literature Bursary in 2014. A limited edition pamphlet, Father (Bonnefant Press) was published in 2015. A 2nd collection is forthcoming from Dedalus Press. She teaches French literature at University College Cork, and is the electric current poetry editor of Southword Periodical.
Photo by Pablo Cayuela
Daniel Salgado (Monterroso, 1981) works as a journalist. He has published seven poesy collections, including his offset Sucede (It Happens, 2004) and his more recent ruído de fondo (Background Racket, 2012) and Dos tempos sombrizos (On the Dark Times, 2013). His volume A Guerra (The State of war, 2013) was written in colaboration with the poet and essayist María exercise Cebreiro. He as well collaborated with the artists Inés Pallares and Fonso Castro on his book ensaios (Essays, 2015). His verse has been gathered in numerous anthologies.
Salgado has translated Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka or Adrienne Rich into Galician, and Lois Pereiro, whom he has also anthologized, into Spanish. He has written lyrics and "fumbled", in his own words, with synthesizers for the electronic music band Das Kapital. With the writer and announcer Manuel Darriba he wrote a political chronicle on Galician left-wing nationalism, and coordinated, along with the essayist and editor Manuel M. Barreiro, the book Entrementres. Ensaios para unha nova política (Meanwhile. Essays for a New Politics, 2014).
Photo past ATLAS Arts
Rody Gorman was built-in in Dublin, Ireland in 1960 and at present lives in the Isle of Skye, Scotland. He has worked every bit writing boyfriend at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Academy College Cork and the Academy of Manitoba and is editor of the annual Irish and Scottish Gaelic poetry anthology An Guth. His commencement poetry drove was Fax and Other Poems (Polygon, 1996), and his selected poems in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Chernilo, was published by Coiscéim in 2006.
Stephen Watts | Billy Ramsell | Adnan Al-Sayegh
Stephen Watts is a poet, editor and translator, with family roots in the Italian Alps. He has lived in Whitechapel for the past thirty years. He twice won second prize in the National Poetry Contest (1983 and 1992). His books include Gramsci & Caruso (2004), The Blue Bag (2005), Mountain Linguistic communication / Lingua di montagna (2008), Journey Across Breath/Tragitto nel respiro (2011) & Ancient Sunlight (2014). Contempo co-translations include book of modern Kurdish poetry & volumes by Ziba Karbassi, Meta Kušar, Adnan al-Sayegh & A.Northward. Stencl (from Farsi, Slovenian, Arabic & Yiddish) & a book of Amarjit Chandan's verse. He has read internationally, in Syrian arab republic (2010), in Romania (May & September 2013) & in Monza, Milan & Ravenna (2014) & has worked in schools & hospitals every bit a writer on issues of well-being & creativity. He has also curated many bilingual readings at exhibitions (including Nolde, Miro, Arshile Gorky, Guttuso & Francisco Toledo).
His poetry has been translated into Italian, Czech, Slovene, Arabic, Bengali, Farsi & Romanian. Ongoing work includes collaborations with Claudiu Komartin & Golan Haji & forthcoming books include The Linguistic communication Of It & a prose work Republic Of Dogs/Republic Of Birds. He produced a video-poem Journey To My Father in 2009. He has worked extensively equally a poet in schools and hospitals in Due east London and in 2006 worked with Howdy-Arts in Inverness on social problems of suicide and survival. In 2007 he was awarded an Arts Council grant for his writing and research and he completed an edition of Female parent Tongues (Bloodaxe Books) which anthologises some of the many fine poets in the Britain who write in languages other than English. He is besides completing an extensive on-line bibliography of modern poetry in English translation.
Billy Ramsell was built-in in Cork in 1977 and educated at the Northward Monastery and UCC. He has published two collections with Dedalus Printing,Complicated Pleasures in 2007 andThe Architect'south Dream of Wintertime in 2013, which was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry At present Honor. He was awarded the Chair of Ireland Bursary for 2013 and the Poetry Ireland Residency Bursary for 2015. He has been invited to read his work at many festivals and literary events around the world. He lives in Cork where he co-runs an educational publishing company.
Adnan al-Sayegh was born in al-Kufa, Iraq in 1955 and is one of the near original voices of his generation of poets. His poesy denounces the devastation of wars and the horrors of dictatorship. Adnan has published eleven collections of poetry, including the 550-page Uruk's Anthem (Beirut 1996). He left his homeland in 1993, lived in Amman, and Beirut then took refuge in Sweden in 1996. Since 2004 he has been living in exile in London.
He has received several international awards; among them, the Hellman-Hammet International Poetry Honor (New York 1996), the Rotterdam International Poetry Award (1997) and the Swedish Writers Association Award (2005), and has been invited to read his poems in many festivals across the globe. His latest work in English language and Arabic is Pages from the Biography of an Exile, published by Arc, 2016.
Stephen Sexton | Catherine Ann Cullen | Sophie Mayer
Stephen Sexton 's poems have appeared in Granta, Verse London and Best British Poetry 2015. His pamphlet, Oils, published past The Emma Press, was the Poetry Book Society'due south Winter Pamphlet Choice. He was the winner of the 2016 National Poetry Competition and the recipient of an ACES award from the Arts Quango of Northern Ireland.
Catherine Ann Cullen is the 2017 Winner of the Business organisation to Arts Award for Best Use of Inventiveness in the Community for her writing residency in East Wall, Dublin. Her third poetry collection, The Other Now: New and Selected Poems, was published by Dedalus Press in Oct 2016, drawing on her 2 collections from Doghouse Books, Strange Familiar (2013) and A Bone in My Throat (2007). She has published ii children's books, Thirsty Baby (2003) and the accolade-winning The Magical, Mystical, Marvellous Glaze (2001), with Little, Brown in the U.s.. She has recently renewed her interest in songs, writing and performing The Rebel Sisterhood as part of Eastrogen Rising: A Rebel Cabaret in 2016; Molly Lone, based on Molly's Bloom's soliloquy in Ulysses, for the Moments of Joyce Festival on Bloomsday 2017; and two songs near the Clump for the National Heritage Week celebration of the river in Baronial.
She won the Francis Ledwidge International Poetry Award in 2016 and 2009. Her work has been widely anthologised, including in Metamorphic: 21st Century Poets Respond to Ovid (Recent Work Printing, 2017) and Hodges Figgis 250th Album (Arlen House, 2018) and is role of the Ireland Verse Reading Archive in UCD. She has a PhD in Creative Writing/Public Works (Middlesex) and an M. Phil. in Creative Writing (TCD). She is a former radio producer and lecturer in journalism, and works part-fourth dimension on the Trinity Access Programmes.
Sophie Mayer is a writer and activist. She is the co-editor of Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot (English PEN, 2012), Binders Full of Women (2012) and Glitter is a Gender (Contraband, 2013), all with Sarah Crewe. Her most contempo verse collections are O (Arc, 2015) and kaolin, or How Does a Girl Like You Become to Be a Girl Like You (Lark Books, 2015), and ii chapbooks, Television receiver Girls (2015) and what the waste country said (2017). She works as a film critic and curator in London, as part of the queer feminist film collective Club des Femmes and of Raising Films, a campaign and community for parents and carers in the film industry. Her work has appeared on hoardings in Dublin, and been translated into Dutch, Japanese, Russian and Greek.
Source: https://www.obheal.ie/blog/winter-warmer-poetry-festival/winter-warmer-festival-2017/
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